"Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale as typical of restless Southerners who hitched their wagons and moved to Texas after the Civil War. . . . Clay Coppedge . . .

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Rockdale ~ My Hometown

A few weeks ago I found myself looking for blogs that have something to do with my hometown of Rockdale, Milam County, Texas. And among other things, I found that while > rockdale.blogspot.com < was indeed a blog, it has absolutely nothing to do with my hometown!
And since I already have a ten-year-old site at rockdale.myfamily.com entitled "Rockdale ~ My Hometown" I decided to go ahead and "reserve" rockdale-myhometown.blogspot.com for future use. What will I post here? I don't know yet, but since Rockdale.myfamily.com already has an ever-expanding timeline of the life of Rockdale and it's families, I may start posting excerpts from that section.
I received a phone call this a.m. from Joy Graham about the annual Rockdale homecoming. This year's June gathering will be the 75th anniversary of this "reunion" and once again, I will be taking in my boxes of three-ring notebooks which contain a printed version of the timeline from Rockdale.myfamily.com.
Joy is the current sponsor of Rockdale.myfamily.com which is a password-protected site, so if you would like to view the photos, et al posted there send me your name and email address and I'll send you an invitation.

Hi Thomas . . . Vickie Everhart (aka benotforgot) here . . . and this is My Hometown, where I grew up . . . as you can tell, I have not yet spent a lot of time working on this blog . . . thanks for helping to spread the word . . .